Monday, July 4, 2016

Innovative Incentive for Clean Green Eco Park

Hon'ble CM on 1st July at the North 24-Paraganas district meeting asked officials and chairpersons present to be innovative in beautifying, greening and cleaning cities of the state. Today morning I discussed an interesting concept with Vodafone. By rewarding people to use garbage-vats by giving free talk time (say 5 minutes' talk time) to anyone who uses the bin. How will it work? Anyone opening the lid and throwing something into the bin will switch on a small key pad on which the mobile number of the person can be keyed in. This will auto-send an SMS to Vodafone who will give x minutes' talktime free to the user mobile. We also talked about an emergency red button on light-posts in Eco Park which, when pressed, will give a silent alert to the nearest Eco Park Office and Police Camp with location: this will make Eco Park safer for visitors. A CCTV located nearby would prevent misuse of the alert button.